The Patriot Post® · The Right to Know Doesn't Exist for Rep. Norton

“Congresswoman” Eleanor Holmes Norton said the White House should operate free from any kind of scrutiny. The representative for the District of Columbia, a non-voting member of the House who was caught four years ago asking for a bribe from a lobbyist, opposed the effort of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to subpoena a White House staffer in an effort to understand if the office violated election law. “You don’t have a right to know everything in a separation of powers government, my friend,” Norton told the committee. “That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation of powers government.” But Norton forgets the people have a right to know everything in a representative form of government. That is the difference between an aristocracy and a republic. Politics is a dirty business, and sunlight is the best disinfectant. More…